Excerpt from Progressive Medicine, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences
When the first volume of Progressive Medicine for 1899 appeared, a year ago, I outlined in its preface the object for which this publication was instituted, and I can do nothing better at the present time than repeat those words. That some authoritative summary of current medical literature presented in narrative form was needed by a large number of the profession is proved by the success of the publication during the first twelve months of its existence, and a still more intimate acquaintance with medical literature has convinced me that even if one has brought to him weekly the best medical literature of the world it is impossible to keep up with it in the sense of grasping its details and assimilating its really valuable practical facts in such a way that they can be applied at the bedside.
Original researches, disputations, records of epoch-making cases or discoveries come to one so fast and so voluminously that a life's work could be found by the physician who attempted to study all the views presented to him. The state of the progressive medical man of to-day is that of a man who, while hungry for food, has thrust upon him such a mass of pabulum prepared in so many forms by so many cooks that it is possible for him to get but a taste of many dishes from which he might obtain much pleasure and strength if he but knew their real value and design. Often the technical appearance of an article staggers his mental digestion, and he casts it from him as being too difficult a morsel for him to assimilate.
There are at the present time numerous "Annuals" or "Year-books" published with the object of recording in condensed form the greater part of the medical literature of the year, but in nearly all of them the process of "boiling down" has been practised without first sifting the useful from the useless, with the result that the physician has presented to him a mass, concentrated, it is true, but so varying in quality that the good can only be separated from the bad by a process as difficult as that needed for the utilization of the crude material.
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